A Pileup of Perpendicular Planets
A new study explores what we can learn from planets that are misaligned with their stars.
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Dynamic Desorption: A Tale of Cosmic Rays
Astrobites reports on how cosmic rays can knock molecules from the ice layers on dust grains into gas, a process known as desorption.
FAST Discovery of New Distant Pulsars
The largest filled-aperture radio telescope in the world has discovered a new assortment of distant, pulsating neutron stars.
The Von Trapp Family Planets: A Sixth Planet Confirmed for K2-138
Astrobites reports on the discovery of K2-138g, another sub-Neptune in K2’s most harmonious system.
Featured Image: Do Planets Make Only Puffy Gaps?
In the simulated cross-section of a protoplanetary disk shown here, dust swirls around as a consequence of the recent passage of an orbiting planet.
Science with a Single Merger Event
Future gravitational-wave observatories could enable us to use a single binary neutron star merger to measure the universe’s rate of expansion.